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25 years after the end of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somnambulism discusses the importance of culture and urban fabric in the construction-destruction-reconstruction of the country. In four different stages, the reader will experience a metaphorical wandering of night and day walking between the old and new infrastructures, buildings and monuments. Firstly, in a once-upon-a-time journey between Sarajevo and Belgrade, historical events unfold the Yugoslav intercultural nation born after the World War II. Then, landscapes still offended by the tragedy of the war and of the urbicide, reveal the collective amnesia of the 1992–1995 conflict. In the last two stages, the dualism between division and unity betoken the contemporary terrain of Bosnia and Herzegovina, marked both by the visible presence of religious monuments and by landscapes which uprise to avoid the oblivion of the multicultural common past. With her photographs, Lara Ciarabellini is able to show the change in the web of intertwining layers of the Yugoslav and Bosnian collective memory in the last decades, adding a new and personal point of view in the analysis of the aftermath of the war. Poems, texts, and archival pictures accompany her and reader's journey. Author: Lara Ciarabellini Texts: Š.Daupović Fiko, C. Elia, E. Forto, A Klemenčić, P. Lowe, S. Milio, T. Novosel, D. Pora Porović, F. Rolandi Publisher: Kehrer Year: 2015 Hardcopy Language: english Dimensions: 28 x 30 cm ISBN:978-3-86828-622-9 -
‘Until Death Do Us Part’ series is the result of two-year photographic project on weddings in Europe, with an accent on cross-cultural couples and certain cultural meanderings, the product of the constant shifts of borders, migrations, globalisation and acculturation. The project represents a visual investigation of the phenomenon of the wedding ceremony and party as one of the crucial anthropological genres, which has for thousands of years played a pivotal role in the ritual life of the human race. In essence, this tradition has remained largely unchanged, despite newly emerging trends and cultural, racial or gender traversing, and in spite of the fact that marriage as an institution is no longer regarded as something so necessarily desirable. Photographs from this series examine the phenomenon of marriage and of wedding ceremony across Europe, often represented as a glamorous pagan ritual paying great attention towards certain fragments of national tradition and folklore of newlyweds and their families. Despite her straight documentary approach and anthropological aims Katarina Radović captures incidental and secondary motifs that often produce metaphysically stressed images with ability to confuse the perception of the seen. Author: Katarina Radović Texts: Jim Casper, Nebojša Pajkić Publisher: Katarina Radovič Year: 2011 hardcopy Print run: 500 copies Print: Publikum, Beograd Language: english, serbian Dimensions: 28,5 x 24,5 cm ISBN: 978-86-915079-0-9 -
The Styrians series of photographs show everyday scenes from rural lives of ordinary local people, depicting their poverty and unenviable social status. The series draws a covert comparison to the new prospects and possibilities of the 1970s by showing the underdeveloped rural areas in contrast to the accelerated development of urban areas. -
A new, beautifully printed book celebrates a 30-year retrospective of his artwork. The over-sized book includes 248 pages of essays, interviews, and an abundance of photographs in groupings that are presented in chronological order. Essays and texts appear in Czech and English. This book was chosen as the ’Best Book of Photography for Central and Eastern Europe in 2008’ by an international jury in Bratislava. Famed Czech photographer Vladimir Zidlicky began his artistic career in the 1970s as a painter, but soon established a signature style that blurred the distinction between painting and photography. Author of photographs: Vladimir Židlicky Editors: Miroslav Ambroz, David Židlicky Authors of text: Josef Moucha, Paul Bogaers, Jim Jordan, Lucia L. Fišerova Year: 2008 Hardcover, 248 pages Language: english, czech ISBN:978-80-254-2920-4 -
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SALE!An exclusive monograph of Vladimír Zidlicky presents his color photographs from the years 2007 - 2009. This beautifully printed book includes 100 pages of essays, interviews, and 95 photographs in groupings that are presented in chronological order. Essays and texts appear in Czech and English. This book was again chosen as the ’Best Book of Contemporary Photography for Central and Eastern Europe in 2010’ by an international jury in Bratislava. Author of photographs: Vladimir Židlicky Editors: Miroslav Ambroz, David Židlicky Authors of text: Josef Moucha, Natasha Christia, Eric Min Year: 2009 Hardcover, 100 pages Language: english, czech ISBN: 978-80-254-6364-2 -
The story is simple. We follow the protagonist, natural light, in three chapters, as it slowly unveils and deglamourizes. In the first chapter, protruding slants of light are unravelling miniscule details and creating mystical, dream-like images. We could be anywhere. Then, Lumen takes us into the tangible, but is entirely subordinate to geometry. Only in the third chapter is the exhausted body of a former maternity hospital illuminated, the walls stripped off to recognition. It is unforgiving, unmasking the misery, but bringing hope, light and warmth at the same time. Renata Štebih, art historian Author: Nataša Segulin Text: Renata Štebih, Andrej Medved Design: Tomato Košir Publisher: Galerija Fotografija Dimenziones: 28 x 28 cm, 96 pages Hard cover, First Edition Year: 2019 ISBN: 9789619455210 -
The book Brotherhood and Unity presents the author's seven-year visual research about the disintegration / breakup of the former Yugoslavia. Book tells the story about identity, about the unification and divergence of nations in former Yugoslavia. Olja Triaška Stefanović is photographing the presence of the past through abandoned monuments, monuments and memorial landscapes, empty and destroyed Yugoslavia architecture and visually analyzes the terms remembrance and forgetting in the context of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and her own memory and personal history. In the photographic essay, she combined her photography essay with her short texts, family archive photos and an archival newspaper from former Yugoslavia and it that way tells the story of the leftovers of a country that no longer exists. The second part of the book presents four essays written by Slovak writers Martin M. Šimečka and Andrej Bán and art historians and professor Milena Bartlová from Prague and art historian Bohunka Koklesová from Bratislava, Slovakia. Essay are focus to issues of identity, remembrance and forgetting, brotherhood and unity and to the political situation and changes in Eastern Europe after 1989. Author/Photographs: Olja Triaška Stefanović, 2012 – 2019 Editors: Olja Triaška Stefanović, Bohunka Koklesová Published by: Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava Circulation: 350 First edition: 2020 ISBN 978-80-8189-038-3 -
The book Trees ('Drevesa in Slovene) is entirely dedicated to the visual and poetical presentation of the trees and forests. Photographs of Gregor Radonjič are combined with the poetry of Ivo Svetina. The book also includes an introductory essay on the significance of trees for human civilization throughout history and their depiction and symbolism in the art of photography written by the author Gregor Radonjič (all texts in Slovene language). Author: Gregor Radonjič Poetry: Ivo Svetina Publisher: Umco d..d, Ljubljana Year: 2020 Hard cover, 150 pages Edition: 500 Language: Slovene Dimensions: 30 x 20 cm ISBN: 978-961-7050-70-7 -
NEW!A Manual for Silence is a photo-text booklet based on an ongoing sequence of photographs bearing the same title. Images may tell the narrative, the testimony, via its absence — the vacancy of the subject. Text conjures images by beleaguering the unspeakable — pasting words and sentences onto the invisible form until it reveals a wireframe of the object.
Perhaps there — behind this impediment, the existence of it all is to be found. In the failed correspondence of mumbling planes and shards of breached conventions. In the imminent erosion of understanding, solely a silent touch can soothe.
Author: Rene Maurin Publisher: Generator Year: 2019 Hard cover, 112 pages Edition: 300 copies Language: English Dimensions: 24 x 17 cm ISBN: 9789612907303 -
Ana Bilankov's first comprehensive monograph and at the same time an artist's book is structurally conceived as a kind of experimental film, a non-chronological 'storyboard' of her conceptual art works made in the media photography, video / experimental film, installation and text in the last twenty years. Structured into ten chapters, the book raises a series of questions on the subject of poetics/politics of dislocation, migration, nomadism, individual and collective memory and construction of identity within "in-between-ness". Many projects have emerged in diverse geographic contexts thanks to several international residencies in different European cities, Moscow and New York, or in both of the author's hometowns, Zagreb and Berlin. The book includes rich photographic and video material as well as the texts written by the author and also two theoretical essays: "Some Future Film" by the art theorist Leonida Kovač and "The Poetry and Revolution of Ana Bilankov" by the film theorist and philosopher Marijan Krivak, and has been designed by Hamper studio Zagreb. Author: Ana Bilankov Publisher: Hamper studio Zagreb Year: 2019 Hard cover, 223 pages Language: English, Croatian Dimensiones: 29 x 23 cm ISBN: 978-953-48548-0-8 -
The author's work monumentally develops the genre of nude and attracts attention in the company of works by Drtikol, Saudek or Mapplethorp. Židlický deliberately violated the rules of classical photography on the inviolability of the negative. His work surprises with its distinctive visuals. The quality of Ator's work is evidenced by the representation in the collections of the Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum Ludwig, Cologne and others.
Author of photographs: Vladimir Židlicky Editors: Josef Moucha, David Židlicky Authors of text: Josef Moucha, Vladimir Židlicky Year of release: 2015 Hardcover, 239 pages Language: english, czech ISBN: 978-80-905608-3-3 -
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SALE!A tribute to the 100th Anniversary of Bauhaus What is the significance of photo collage in these modern times saturated with fragmented visual images and the ubiquitous "special effects" of new technologies? Has this artistic process preserved its aesthetic relevance from the time of its creation about 100 years ago? An empirical view across the landscape of contemporary art provides a feeling that the interest in a collage in contemporary art has been growing again. Particularly in photography, works have been created that re-enforce the collage principle in the wider original contemporary practice. Project A New Vision of Debris is trying to answer the initial questions by presenting ten positions of regionally established female and male artists. At the same time, the project is an homage to the fabled Bauhaus school, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of its establishment this year, primarily to some of its protagonists who have taught photography and have established photo collage as a new and legitimate artistic practice. Authors of the text: Dejan Sluga, Katarina Manojlović Curator: Dejan Sluga Participating artists: Alexandra Baumgartner, Caroline Heider, Herbert Hofer, Marko Lipuš, Lilly Lulay, Iosif Kiraly, Kensuke Koike, Zuzana Pustaiova, Anita Witek, Metka Zupančič Editor: Špela Pipan Publisher and producer: Galerija Photon Year : 2018 Paperback, 35 pages Language: english, slovenian
